Fewer teen pregnancies after funds for sex-ed are cut

An important new study in the UK has found that a cut in government funding for sex education and for the supply of contraceptives has led to a huge fall in the number of teenage girls becoming pregnant.The findings are likely to lead many schools to review the kind of sex-ed they have been providing and to ask if they have actually been misleading and betraying their female students. Researchers analysed trends in 149 local authorities between 2009 and 2014. Much to their surprise they discovered that cuts to funds for sex-ed and contraceptives coincided with teenage pregnancy rates falling by 42.6%, reaching their lowest level in more than 40 years.

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Faithful congregations attract more members

People who want Christianity today want the real thing, not a watered down version of it. This seems to be the conclusion of a study comparing growing and shrinking Protestant congregations in Ontario, Canada.Researchers surveyed 22 congregations from four of the "mainline denominations", nine of them growing and 13 shrinking.